scoop

UK/skuːp/

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British/skʉwp/

scoop noun: any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.

Noun

scoop (plural scoops)

Any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
- She kept a scoop in the dog food.
- an ice-cream scoop
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scooper
The amount or volume of loose or solid material held by a particular scoop.
- Use one scoop of coffee for each pot.
- I'll have one scoop of chocolate ice-cream.
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scoopful
The act of scooping, or taking with a scoop or ladle; a motion with a scoop, as in dipping or shovelling.
- with a quick scoop, she fished the frog out of the pond.
A story or fact; especially, news learned and reported before anyone else.
- He listened carefully, in hopes of getting the scoop on the debate.
- "We may get a scoop, if we are lucky. You'll be there in any case, so you'll just give us a pretty full report."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC
Synonyms:

dope, poop
An opening in a hood/bonnet or other body panel to admit air, usually for cooling the engine.
The digging attachment on a front-end loader.
A place hollowed out; a basinlike cavity; a hollow.
- Some had lain in the scoop of the rock.1819, Joseph Rodman Drake, The Culprit Fay
A spoon-shaped surgical instrument, used in extracting certain substances or foreign bodies.
A special spinal board used by emergency medical service staff that divides laterally to scoop up patients.
A sweep; a stroke; a swoop.
(Scotland) The peak of a cap.
(pinball) A hole on the playfield that catches a ball, but eventually returns it to play in one way or another.

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The raised end of a surfboard.
- This brings the scoop into play as additional wetted surface and slows the board due to its fore-and-aft curvature1965, John M. Kelly, Surf and Sea, page 116
- [T]he scoop or upward curvature in the front or nose section of a board is designed to keep the board from diving under the surface of the water when the surfer is catching a wave.1977, Fred Hemmings, Surfing: Hawaii's Gift to the World of Sports, page 59
A kind of floodlight with a reflector.
(dated, slang) A haul of money made through speculation.
A note that begins slightly below and slides up to the target pitch.
- Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.1995, Music & Computers, volume 1, numbers 2-4, page 57
(collective, rare) A group of pelicans.
- A scoop of pelicans roosts on the rocks late Sunday afternoon at Natural Bridges State Beach as a surfer rides a wave.2025 November 24, Shmuel Thaler, Santa Cruz Sentinel
- A scoop of pelicans gather in Brockliss Slough just below Genoa.2025 July 1, Kurt Hildebrand, “Monsoon season underway in Southwest”, in The Record-Courier

Verb

scoop (third-person singular simple present scoops, present participle scooping, simple past and past participle scooped)

(transitive) To lift, move, or collect with a scoop or as though with a scoop.
- He used both hands to scoop water and splash it on his face.
- Their first clear opportunity duly came courtesy of a mistake from Russell Martin, who was hustled off the ball by Bale, but the midfielder scooped his finish well over the top as he bore down on the Norwich goal.2011 December 27, Mike Henson, “Norwich 0 - 2 Tottenham”, in BBC Sport
(transitive) To make hollow; to dig out.
- I tried scooping a hole in the sand with my fingers.
(transitive) To report on something, especially something worthy of a news article, before (someone else).
- The paper across town scooped them on the City Hall scandal.
(often) To begin a vocal note slightly below the target pitch and then to slide up to the target pitch, especially in country music.
(slang) To pick (someone) up
- You have a car. Can you come and scoop me?
(slang) To win the entire pot in a hand in which the pot was split.

scoop meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

scoop in Tamil

அள்ளு, அள்ளி எடு, குடைந்தெடு, கொள்ளை ஈட்டம், கொள்ளை ஈட்டம் கொள், சட்டுவக் கரண்டி

scoop in Urdu

scoop, spoon: چمچ cammac

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scoop in Bengali: আইসক্রীম, সেচনী, ছেঁচিয়া ফেলা
scoop in Telugu: స్కూప్
scoop in Malayalam: വാരുക vāruka
scoop in Kannada: ಅಗಪೆ agape
scoop in Punjabi: ਸਕੂਪ
scoop in Gujarati: સ્કૂપ, સ્કુપ
scoop in Odia: ସ୍କୁପ୍
scoop in Assamese: ৰোকা rüka
scoop in Nepali: स्कुप, स्कूप
scoop in Arabic: مِغْرَفَة miḡrafa
scoop in Persian: خبر داغ, خبر دست اول

Examples of scoop in a sentence

The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.2016 November 7, Peter Bradshaw, “Allied: what happens when a film gets eclipsed by gossip”, in The Guardian:
TThe Egyptian goose (circled) was spotted in a scoop of pelicans.2023 January 9, Himanshu Kaushik, “Rare sighting”, in The Times of India:

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Synonyms of scoop

Forms of scoop

Noun
plural	scoops
Verb
third-person singular present	scoops
present participle	scooping
past participle	scooped
past	scooped

Past tense of scoop: scooped

Plural of scoop: scoops

Origin of scoop

From Middle English scope, schoupe, a borrowing from Middle Dutch scoep, scuep, schope, schoepe (“bucket for bailing water”) and Middle Dutch schoppe, scoppe, schuppe ("a scoop, shovel"; > Modern Dutch schop (“spade”)), from Proto-Germanic *skuppǭ, *skuppijǭ, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kep- (“to cut, to scrape, to hack”). Cognate with Old Frisian skuppe (“shovel”), Middle Low German schōpe (“scoop, shovel”), German Low German Schüppe, Schüpp (“shovel”), German Schüppe, Schippe (“shovel, spade”). Related to English shovel, Japanese スコップ.

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Words that rhyme with scoop

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Questions about scoop

What does scoop mean?: Scoop means any cup-shaped or bowl-shaped tool, usually with a handle, used to lift and move loose or soft solid material.
What is scoop in Hindi?: Scoop in Hindi is स्कूप. See Scoop meaning in Hindi.
How do you use scoop in a sentence?: The problem is that the public, disobediently giggling over their social media accounts, reckon they’ve already got the scoop without needing to see the film.
What part of speech is scoop?: Scoop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce scoop?: Scoop is pronounced /skuːp/ (UK).
What is the plural of scoop?: The plural of scoop is scoops.

Words near scoop in the dictionary

Adapted from Wiktionary: scoop (page history and authors); scoop (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scoop (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); چمچ (Urdu) (page history and authors); scoop (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); scoop (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); വാരുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ಅಗಪೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); scoop (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoop (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoop (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); scoop (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

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